On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 03:41:49 BST, Jasper Wallace said:
Location - either distribute all the addresses evenly over the planet or try to map to population density.
This works well (sort of) at the DNS level - that's why we have ISO country code domains. ;) However, you can't do this well at the "routing a packet" level (which is where IP lives) because you can't aggregate routes very well. Try computing what happens to your routing tables in the Boston, NYC, or Silicon Valley area, or anyplace else there's a fairly high density of high-tech, and multiple providers. In the worst case scenario, you have an office building that has Genuity customers on floors 2 and 7, Sprint on 1, 3, and 9, a company on floor 4 and half of 5 from another vendor, and 4 suites on each of floors 6 and 8, each of whom are dealing with a different small ISP. You think we got problems with punch-out prefixes *NOW*. ;) Figuring out what this means for "wardriving" is left as an exercise for the student ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech